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Taka

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What is the difference between the two below?

It begins on Friday.
It begins from Friday.

Or does the second one sound wrong?
 

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But this one sounds OK, doesn't it?

The rainy season begins from July.

Why do you think 'from July' sounds fine whereas 'from Friday' doesn't?
 

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I don't think starts from July sounds fine at all.

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In Japan, the rainy season begins in June.

Is this grammatically correct?
 

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Yes! It certainly is.
 

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For your information, that example of rainy season was from here:

Weather in Guam Island

So you don't think it's written by a native speaker of English?
 

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"The rainy season runs from June to September." is OK. But not "begins from..."

The website company is in India. So this may be a regional variation, or it may be simply wrong. It certainly seems wrong to American and British ears.
 

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Weather in Guam Island

[not a teacher]

Even the title sounds wrong to me.

Either
Weather in Guam​
or
Weather on Guam Island​
 
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